prepare for 0.18.0 release (#2339)

Author: OriolAbril

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Change Log
 
-## v0.x.x Unreleased
+## v0.18.0 (2024 Apr 4)
 
 ### New features
 
@@ -13,10 +13,6 @@
 - Fix deprecation warnings in multiple dependencies ([2329](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2329),
   [2332](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2332) and [2333](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2333))
 
-### Deprecation
-
-### Documentation
-
 ## v0.17.1 (2024 Mar 13)
 
 ### Maintenance and fixes

arviz/__init__.py

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 # pylint: disable=wildcard-import,invalid-name,wrong-import-position
 """ArviZ is a library for exploratory analysis of Bayesian models."""
-__version__ = "0.18.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "0.18.0"
 
 import logging
 import os

doc/source/getting_started/Installation.rst

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ and
 
 .. code::
 
-    python>=3.8
+    python>=3.10
 
 ArviZ follows `NEP 29 <https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html>`_
 and `SPEC 0 <https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/>`_ to choose the minimum

requirements.txt

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 setuptools>=60.0.0
 matplotlib>=3.5
-numpy>=1.22.0,<2.0
-scipy>=1.8.0
+numpy>=1.23.0,<2.0
+scipy>=1.9.0
 packaging
-pandas>=1.4.0
+pandas>=1.5.0
 dm-tree>=0.1.8
-xarray>=0.21.0
+xarray>=2022.6.0
 h5netcdf>=1.0.2
 typing_extensions>=4.1.0
 xarray-einstats>=0.3